Python Exercise #25

#!/usr/bin/python      # exact position of python
#!/usr/bin/env python  # position of python in enviornment
# -*- coding:utf-8 -*- # coding
# Purpose: Even More Practice

def break_words(stuff):
	"""This function will break up words for us."""
	words = stuff.split(',')
	return words

def sort_words(words):
	"""Sorts the words."""
	return sorted(words)

def print_first_word(words):
	"""Prints the first word after popping it off."""
	word = words.pop(0)
	print word

def print_last_word(words):
	"""Prints the last word after popping it off."""
	word = words.pop(-1)
	print word

def sort_sentence(sentence):
	"""Takes in a full sentence and returns the sorted words."""
	words = break_words(sentence)
	return sort_words(words)

def print_first_and_last(sentence):
	"""Prints the first and last words of the sentence."""
	words = break_words(sentence)
	print_first_word(words)
	print_last_word(words)

def print_first_and_last_sorted(sentence):
	"""Sorts the words then prints the first and last one."""
	words = sort_sentence(sentence)
	print_first_word(words)
	print_last_word(words)

Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Dec  7 2011, 20:48:22) 
[GCC 4.4.6 20110731 (Red Hat 4.4.6-3)] on linux2
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>>> import ex25
>>> help(ex25)
>>> help(ex25.break_words)